The Shameless Collection

[Pete]

Quote Almar:
Add to that a lot of them are real curios you'd struggle to get them stocked and sell enough copies.


Surely that is the case with all the tiltes released so far?

btw: will you get annoyed if i keep suggesting titles from their web page?

[Almar@Cult Labs]

No suggest away from Surf - at least there's a good inroad there and yes there are a few curios from there now released but the more hardcore you go the more the sales get teenier.

[Pete]

Surf have a great catalog.


If you are unsure about what to release would it be possible to do a poll? That way you know what film will have better sales.

[Almar@Cult Labs]

The complication is that each film can come with a whole range of issues which you don't know until you start rooting about which can take an age - look how long Footprints took. To that end a poll is somewhat hobbled because you're voting for stuff that may never happen.

I think work up titles that would be of interest then we can do some basic checking and then get to poll stage is how it could work.

[Pete]

Sorry, i should have said a poll for films that you know you can put out.

It might have sounded like an odd suggestion but a least you would know which film would have a better chance in the market.

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Nothing odd about it - it's a fine idea - the stumbling block is Italian film catalogues are very odd!

[Pete]

Odd in what way?

[Almar@Cult Labs]

A lot of them aren't even that bothered about selling film rights - they do TV deals for a lot of money - DVDs etc can just be an inconvenience and they can charge sill money for films that just won't sell enough even to break even.

[Pete]

I guess thats why we dont really see many italian exploitation films in the uk market. With what you are saying and bbfc fees it just doesnt make financial sense.

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Sadly it's often true - hence why shedloads of feedback helps - it dislodged the likes of Footprints from never happening.